The Romance Reviews

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

SCBWI - The Great Critique is coming January 19th

Here’s a chance for writers to be critiqued by a
professional and their peers.

Location: TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland,
OR 97215

Time: 9:30 to noon.

Never been in a critique group? Wish you could be critiqued
by someone who is ahead of you in the publishing game? Want to strengthen your
work? Need a fresh set of eyes and ears on that oft-revised piece? Want to have
your manuscript ready for the May conference? This is your chance. A published
writer will lead each small group and critique your manuscript. You'll also
hear others' work and get feedback from those writers too. Plus you'll learn
from the comments by the critique leader about the work of others.

Cost:

SCBWI members - $10.00 (That's less than the price of a
Friday night movie!)

Sign up now with
the kind of manuscript you'll be bringing. You may bring a maximum of five
double-spaced pages or 1200 words. DO NOT bring more. Use standard manuscript
format, which means your first page will not be a full page. For picture books,
we suggest you bring no more than 750 words.

We will do our
best to place you in a group of 5 or 6 peers who write in the same genre and
with a published author who writes in that genre.

We'll let you know
how many copies of your manuscript to bring to the meeting.

We'll also send
you some basic critique group guidelines.

At the meeting
each of you will have a chance to pass your work around to your group and read
it aloud.

Each person in the
group will make notes on your manuscript as you read. They'll write down what
they like, mark errors they see, indicate where they are confused or what
doesn't work for them.

The professional
writer will verbally critique your work. If time, other participants may
comment.

You'll receive
your copies with written comments from each one in your group. Take them home
and let the ideas simmer.

You might even
make some new friends or find those to form a critique group.

"Can’t imagine sitting with a group of strangers and
reading your manuscript aloud? It should be harder to imagine sending an
untried, unedited, unrevised bit of your soul out on submission!" – Jenn
Bailey, children's writer and social media expert

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